The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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Week of Events
Accessible Digital Media: Summer 2022
Accessible Digital Media: Summer 2022
July 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course Description Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions make multimedia more accessible. They help provide additional access for vision or hearing impairments, learning disabilities, noisy environments, non-fluent speakers, and others. This short course will help you understand the important definitions surrounding accessible media, the existing laws and policy standards... Continue Reading →
Empathy by Design: Summer 2022
Empathy by Design: Summer 2022
July 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course (This short course was previously titled Humanizing Your Online Course) Description This course is intended for Minnesota State faculty who are either teaching or planning to teach an online or hybrid course and are interested applying evidence-based strategies for humanizing the learning experience through effective facilitation and course... Continue Reading →
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2022
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Summer 2022
July 25 - August 14, 2022 Short Course Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this introductory course, we’ll have the... Continue Reading →
Monday, July 25, 2022
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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July 26, 2022 -Logins and Captions and Breakouts, Oh My!
Logins and Captions and Breakouts, Oh My!
A look at common issues in Zoom and how to avoid them. Has anyone ever entered your room without your permission when you thought you had the waiting room enabled? Want to know why some students can choose their own Breakout rooms and others can't? Do you want to create an equitable learning experience for... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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July 27, 2022 -Finding and Using Open Educational Resources
Finding and Using Open Educational Resources
Looking for that perfect image to insert into your PowerPoint slide? Searching for a soundtrack for your course welcome video? If you mix Creative Commons licensed work into your own creations, how do you cite that work? Can you share copies of it? In this webinar, we will explore some popular repositories of Creative Commons... Continue Reading →
Thursday, July 28, 2022
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July 28, 2022 -Applying Content Page Templates in D2L Brightspace 2
Applying Content Page Templates in D2L Brightspace 2
This webinar will demonstrate how you can use the pre-formatted HTML templates as a starting point for creating Content pages in D2L Brightspace. The templates provide you with example materials and page layouts that you may copy and edit as appropriate for your needs. This webinar walks through the steps of selecting and revising the... Continue Reading →
Friday, July 29, 2022
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